Feelings Quote by Milan Kundera

“It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.” quote by Milan Kundera — Download Open image

“It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.”

Milan Kundera

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